Bringing together companies, foundations, and feminist leaders to invest in women’s health, safety, and economic resilience.
The Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains brings together companies, foundations, and feminist leaders to chart a new philanthropic course to support women-led organizations at the center of change in their communities. The Fund is flipping the script on traditional, top-down philanthropy. It puts trust and resources into the hands of women-led organizations to determine the solutions for their own communities.
Our Approach
Giving organizations flexible funding to use where they think it will yield the strongest outcomes.
The Fund trusts women leaders to make their own decisions about where to direct funding and determine what their organizations and communities need based on their unique realities.
Shifting power through democratized governance, participatory grantmaking, and a commitment to language justice.
The Fund’s representative Advisory Board is balanced with equal voting power among women’s funds, civil society organizations, and corporate investors. Grant decisions are guided by the knowledge and recommendations of women leaders in the communities the Fund seeks to support. Translation and accessibility support are central to all Fund activities and engagement.
Creating unique spaces for connection, dialogue, and real-time learning among corporate investors, women’s funds, and women-led organizations.
The Fund’s Learning Hub and other safe spaces allow stakeholder engagement among sectors that may not otherwise collaborate—allowing partners to learn from each other, address challenges jointly, and co-create new metrics of impact.
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